Moai Easter Island Mystery

Mystery of the Moai statues: building, transport,

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Moai Monolithes were extracted from the Rano Raraku stone mines. When you go there, you will see a sculpture cut from the side of the volcanic crater before it is removed from it. The moai were virtually smelted from the rocks, just like in the case of chees.

In the Rano Raraku stone pit you can see almost 400 moai at the craters. She has not removed the biggest moai ever made, El Gigante, which is still part of the crag. Completed and built, it would be the biggest sculpture today, which measures over 21 metres, the mass fluctuates between 160-180 tonnes, some even say 270 tonnes.

Several moai have woodcarvings, which are often called "graffiti". It is interesting that the sculpture on a sculpture depicts a sailboat, which means that it could have been made in the later 1700' after the Europeans first arrived at Rafa Nui. To carve the moai from solid base, thick cava and other solid vulcanic materials must have been a tough work.

It would be impossible to form such a monomer even with advanced moulds. A few Moai were made out of soft scarlet rocks, some are said to be made out of timber but have vanished (probably for firewood and other needs). A further tricky and perhaps the most tricky job was to get the moai out of the stone pit dozens of kilometres and into place.

The most moai are in the quarries, while the other half is irregularly spread along the coast. Rano Raraku was the principal stone pit, therefore this place is regarded as the "birthplace" for the great majority of mai. There are many who believe that the timber was not powerful enough for such surgeries, and if they fell it and placed it under the monolith to get to its ultimate target, too many would have been necessary because they would have been torn to shreds by the giant rock.

But if they hadn't transported the sculptures, what would they have used? This is a less reasonable hypothesis because the rocks could have been destroyed by the gravel and blocks below them. There' s got to be a rationale behind how they drove the moai. There' s a hypothesis that fruit and vegetable could be used to make a'soft sidewalk' on which the rocks could slipp.

Nevertheless, in some cases they had to go upward and how could they move them? The moai became very slippery once in the "paste" and the local people must have pulled it up with a different techniq.